Tag Archives: Inner West

Sydney’s most famous Five Ways is a junction of streets at the heart of Paddington. It is a much referred-to locale of the Real Estate lyricist, spruiking of properties in terms such as “In the heart of the Five Ways village…” … Continue reading →

In January 1930 Sydney’s The Sun newspaper and The Newcastle Sun reported the following unusual occurrence of many years prior: The Sun (Sydney) Tuesday, 28 January 1930 A long-lost Sydney urban myth? Or the exhausted rantings of a sports journalist … Continue reading →

LIVER DISORDERS CURED BILE BEANS GAIN GREAT PRAISE. A Disordered Liver, if not attended to, very often brings in its train serious results. The stomach, the digestive organs, and the kidneys become lax in their duties. Pimples and blotches appear, … Continue reading →

ARNOTT’S MILK ARROWROOTS THE CHILDREN’S BISCUITS NOTED FOR THEIR PURITY Alma May Taylor, aged six months, daughter of Mrs. G. Taylor, The Elite Academy, corner George and Cambrian Streets, Erskineville, near Sydney, N.S.W. fed since the age of two weeks … Continue reading →

In 1882 a series of articles appeared in Sydney’s Evening News describing several municipalities and boroughs on the outskirts of the city of Sydney. Over many weeks between July and September 1882 the boroughs and municipalities of Paddington, Waverly, Randwick, … Continue reading →

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Founded in Erskineville in 1909 the Macdonaldtown Bicycle Club is pushing off and trundling the streets of Erskineville again in search of old maps, its old houses and terraces and various past happenings.

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